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Australia scamper into another World Cup final after South African scare.  Indian juggernaut looms for Australia’s next challenge.  – BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE.  (eLanka Sports editor). © ICC 2023 : Photo Courtesy of ICC   Australia continued to stifle South Africa’s aspirations to progress beyond a semi -final of a World Cup as they scampered into another final against a dominant India.  South Africa harbours bitter memories of  being eliminated before the big dance on several occasions, and Australia has been their biggest stumbling block. They just exerted more pain on a hapless nemesis.  They did not go without a fight though sending shock waves through the Australian camp when they grabbed 5 for 137 before Steve Smith,  Josh Inglis and later skipper Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc steadied the ship to see Australia home.  But it was Travis Head who set the pace for Australia’s win with an ...

Nov 17, 2023 Posted by In Articles, Trevine Rodrigo Tagged , , , , , , ,
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India’s castle blown down by a mighty England huff and puff. – BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE.     England huffed and puffed and blew India’s house down, much to the dismay of the ICC, the rest of all experts, and all expectations.  So, Asia in the form of Pakistan, take on England, and I would be a optimist to even venture on predicting a winner with two teams not really a popular choice who have made this World Cup final, and are capable of winning against anyone on their day.  Skipper Jos Buttler and Alex Hales smashed unbeaten 80 and 86 in whirlwind fashion to lead England on a romp to the final chasing 170. They achieved a par total with four overs to spare after an incredible run chase.  India provided the early fireworks led by prolific batters Virat Kohli 50 0ff40 balls, and Hardik Pandiya whose brutal ...

Nov 11, 2022 Posted by In Articles, Trevine Rodrigo Tagged , , , , , , , , ,
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Full text of PM Modi’s letter to Dhoni: ‘Looking at you as just a sportsperson would be injustice’ Source:Scroll.In The former India captain thanked PM Modi for the appreciation, something he said that every artist, solider and sportsperson craves. Mere statistics are not enough to assess the impact Mahendra Singh Dhoni had on Indian cricket, the Prime Minister wrote in a letter paying tribute to the former captain who announced his international retirement on August 15. Modi heaped praise on the talismanic captain who led his country to three limited-overs ICC tournament triumphs. Dhoni is the the only captain to have won all the ICC trophies on offer (including the mace for No 1 Test team in the world). The 39-year-old retired from international cricket on Independence Day with a post on Instagram, more than a year after he last played for India – the lost World Cup semifinal against ...

Sep 1, 2020 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , Comments 0
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A World Cup lesson in multi-culturalism – An opinion piece by Aubrey Joachim   While the Australian politicians, media shock-jocks and the north-shore and Turak types argue the down sides of migration, multi-culturalism and refugees, the world was given a world cup lesson in why and how these perceived negativities can be turned into a positive and how countries can benefit at a stadium in Moscow when the French national team played Croatia in the FIFA 2018 World Cup final. Seventeen members of the 2018 cup-winning French football team were either born overseas or have parents born overseas. They come from Congo, Cameroon, Guinea, Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, Algeria, Morocco and DR Congo – all former French colonies. It is being said that France spent half the nineteenth century conquering Africa so they could build their 2018 team. Of course as seen by the Western world today it is wrong for ...

Jul 16, 2018 Posted by In Articles, Aubrey Joachim Tagged , Comments 0
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